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My point is to know your track. If that guy knew of the lake, he would have tried to spin the car out or turn away.

The two tracks I have raced at mostly over the years I know well and would have a strategy for brake failure. Edgewater has a pretty long shutdown and a sand (mostly mud) trap, then a few trees at the edge of the Great Miami River. There were a few deaths years ago when fast cars went into the river. I have talked to bracket racers that lost brakes there, they were able to make the turn onto the return road (or into the adjacent field) without turning over.

Tri-State Dragway is similar, although they run S/P and Pro on 1/8th mile now. Go straight and you will hit 100 ft. of corn, then the river. Turn left and you can try to make the return road or more corn and then trees.

I believe that both Indy and Columbus have the large catch nets installed now.



all good points, when my son was racing thats the first thing we did at new tracks. drove to the top end and talked about ways out. and gville did have a catch net, it failed...